Short-time

Quick meaning: Short-time is an adjective meaning Lasting a short time; of short duration.

Meaning

Lasting a short time; of short duration.

More Meanings

1. Occurring with a short time of a specific event.
2. Pertaining to work that has been short-timed.
3. Of a sex worker, engaging customers for a brief sexual encounter rather than an extended period such as the whole night.
4. (transitive, human resources) To reduce the amount of workhours in a given time period.
5. (Vietnam, prostitution) To hire or be hired as a sex worker for the time period that ends when ejaculation is reached.
6. (transitive) To cut short the duration of something.

Example Sentences

Lines represent short-time trajectories with travelling time T < 14 days.

The average rate on short-time loans, based on these bank reports, is 10.75 per cent.

To borrow some terminology from statistical physics, we are interested here in the “quenched” short-time behavior of p_y, as opposed to its "annealed" behavior.

In this higher approximation to the short-time effects, the shock is no longer stationary or trapped unless it is supported by a negative steady-flow back pressure;

Word Forms

• short-times
• short-timing
• short-timed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hour, short-lived, short-term.

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